Venture Kick Winners Nationwide: Bern, Vaud, Zurich, St. Gallen
24.01.2019
From a new combined coating to administrate heated infusion lines without batteries to a disruptive guidewire to improve aneurysms surgeries, to an implantable medical device to prevent preterm birth, and a data analytics software for restaurants, The four startup projects, who receive 10,000-franc ‘kicks’ to develop their ideas, represent Swiss innovation from four cantons. Meet the ideas that may shape the future of medtech and foodtech. Frater, ARTIRIA Medical, JYFO.io, and Yannick Devaud won 10,000 Swiss francs startup capital from the Venture Kick national support program.
 Frater, GmbH, Andreas Frasnelli
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 Arteria Medica, Guillaume Petit-Pierre and Marc Boers
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 PatchMeBaby, Yannick Devaud
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 JYFO.io, Julian Rossy
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Patients, especially those rescued after exposure in high mountains or cold water are at risk of hypothermia. Stabilizing patient temperature is critical for medical staff, who work outside the usual hospital environment. Andreas Frasnelli, is a medical doctor and St. Gallen graduate. He was elected as one of the youngest heads of a medical department (Department of Emergency Medicine in Visp, Valais) in Switzerland at the age of 37. He is using eight years’ experience of helicopter rescue missions to develop coatings that will heat infusion lines without the need for batteries.
www.venturekick.ch/frater
The best way to treat a stroke-victim's brain is through the patient’s vascular system. Doctors perform such procedures 410,000 times a year. This surgery caries complication risks, high costs and unnecessary extended duration, because current devices don’t give surgeons enough control over the procedure. ARTIRIA Medical, building on École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne graduates Guillaume Petit-Pierre’s and Marc Boers's neuroengineering research, is developing a device to help surgeons quickly and safely navigate in brain arteries to improve patients outcome.
www.venturekick.ch/artiria
Treating fetuses in the maternal womb, during pregnancy, risks triggering premature birth. Fetoscopic interventions -- using surgical instruments in the womb -- damages the fetal membrane and cause early births in 80 percent of cases. Doctor in bioengineering, Yannick Devaud developed this technology at University Hospital of Zurich. This innovation may prevent membrane rupture following fetoscopies, opening the path to more fetal treatment and fewer deaths.
www.venturekick.ch/Medica
Predicting kitchen supplies, diners’ desires and necessary staffing levels are challenges for every restaurant-owner. With a team spanning from St. Gallen to Singapore, JYFO.io applies computing power to the problem, and offers software for restauranteurs to better understand their likely needs, allowing them to reduce food-waste and staffing costs.
www.venturekick.ch/JYFO